85 Ga. App. 327 - Burks v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 1981 · most notably 116 Ga. App. 733 - Saunders v. Vikers (1967), 116 Ga. App. 93 - United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Evans (1967)
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance · Chattooga County v. Megginson · 107 Ohio St. 501 - Elliott v. Hardins · Globe Indemnity Co. v. Legien · 73 Ga. App. 491 - Durden v. Maddox
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has also held that one who turns an automobile over to another for his own use, knowing such other is incompetent to drive the same, may be held liable by third persons who suffer injuries proximately resulting from such incompetent driving. Nugrape Bottling Co. v. Knott, 47 Ga. App. 539 (1) ( 171 S. E. 151 ); Crisp v. Wright, 56 Ga. App. 338 ( 192 S. E. 390 ); Durden v. Maddox, 73 Ga. App. 491, 493 ( 37 S. E. 2d 219 ). See also Elliott v. Harding, 107 Ohio 501 ( 140 N. E. 338 , 36 A. L. R. 1128).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“nevertheless, the injurious conduct of the driver resulting from his incompetency is a necessary factor in the liability of the owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This duty and liability applies as to a guest in the owner's vehicle as well as to a stranger on the highway,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.